Word: easterlies
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Saigon, under U.S. pressure, apparently has accepted these terms. Hanoi too is amenable, perhaps because it has already replaced most of the materiel it expended during the 1972 Easter offensive. The North also seems to have shifted its strategy. Its party line these days is that a great victory has been won, since for the first time in 115 years no foreign troops occupy Viet Nam. Now the revolution must be carried forward by political rather than military means. One Communist directive urges its cadres to work harder at building the economic and political infrastructure by growing rice and making...
...Easter Sunday, Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban summoned French Ambassador Francis Huré from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem to present him with what Eban called "documentary evidence" that 18 of the 70 Mirages that France has so far delivered to Libya had been flown to Egypt. Eban said later that he had supplied the French with the number of the planes, the dates of their transfer, their present location, as well as proof that ground installations for controlling the Mirages in flight have been put up at the Egyptian airbase at Almaza, east of Cairo...
Spring came early to Hanover, N.H., this year. The icebergs actually melted in the Connecticut River before the first crew race. The crocuses came up before Easter. And so, when the Harvard track team travels to Hanover today, it can leave its earmuffs and mittens behind...
...Derek Bok is less orthodox than his predecessor, sir. He believes in Easter without the Passion. Why, there were classes on Good Friday, Ash Monday, and Passover...
...think you're cute, don't you, Dunlop? Did Derek Bok go to church on Easter, Dunlop? Or on Good Griday, Ash Monday, and Passover? A Freedom Seder, perhaps? Or a midnight mass celebrated by a homosexual defrocked Jesuit married to a former nun? Dunlop, I'm afraid you're really up shit creek without a paddle. And you can tell your friends in Hanoi that the President is a merciful man, but his mercies do not endure forever...